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Memories of My Father Watching TV

Published
Jul 1998
Main Genre
General Fiction General Fiction
Pages
158

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"Memories of My Father Watching TV" has as its protagonists television shows, around which the personalities of family members are shaped. The shows have a life of their own and become the arena of shared experience. And in Curtis White's hands, they become a son's projections of what he wants for himself and his father through characters in "Combat, " "Highway Patrol, " "Bonanza, " and other television shows (and one movie) from the 1950s and '60s. Comic in many ways, "Memories" is finally a sad lament of father-son relationship that is painful and tortured, displayed against a background of what they most shared, the watching of television, the universal American experience.

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Jul 1998 Dalkey Archive Press ISBN13 9781564781895 ISBN10 1564781895
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